This is a wonderful article. Bravo, Tanya! And bigsofty I'm right there with you, QuoterGal's quote in there brought tears to my eyes. I feel a little choked up in general, because Whedon has inspired so many people to work so hard to make the world a better place, and I feel so damn lucky to be a part of it!

I cannot express sufficiently the joy I feel at reading the article and hope the inspiration many of us who responded to Joss' plea on that day more than five years ago felt, keeps going out into the universe; through this article, through others, through Can't Stop the Serenity, through private donations. I hope many have seen Joss' speech at the Equality Now 20th Anniversary event. I found the whole program on YouTube: At 47:00 - short but succinct.

I've given probably $1,000 to Equality Now, the organization Joss called "A place of sanity", since 2007, including a beautiful item auctioned off last year, with all of the funds going to them. I wish it were a million, scores of millions. Keep going, keep strong, remember Du'a Khalil and all those who are the victims of that senseless beast called honour killing: Memini.